Multi-millionaire movie director Neil Jordan and his wife Brenda Rawn have stepped up their on-going kerfuffle with a neighbour over a bathing changing area.

The Oscar-winner has lodged a fresh objection to the planning retention application for Robin Power’s shelter on plush Sorrento Terrace in Dalkey, South Dublin.

In April the couple made a successful plea at the High Court to have the original approval quashed, reports the Irish Mirror.

The application is now back before Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council as a result of the court’s order.

The Jordan/Rawn objection has been drawn up by planning consultant Ann Mulcrone and she states there is a need from the council to inspect the site from the vicinity of the applicants’ property and garden “so the real and substantive impact” on their home “can be fully understood on site”.

The objection states the impact of the development on the neighbouring garden of the Jordan/Rawn home “is very significant”.

The couple live at No7 Sorrento Terrace with Mr Power at No8.

Sorrento Terrace, Dalkey, Co. Dublin

Ms Mulcrone requested the application be reviewed by a different planning team to the one that granted Mr Power planning retention last year.

She states: “This is absolutely essential to bring some measure of independent review of the issues raised and avoid the perception of objective bias.”

She also claims the extent of the development at the Power home “is much more significant than identified in the public notice”.

The objection states that “unauthorised development, if allowed, would materially affect the character of the protected structure and would seriously injure the amenities and depreciate the value of property in the vicinity”.

It also added: “A grant of permission for the retention of the subject development, would set an adverse precedent for the retention of development which is not just unauthorised but also materially adversely affects the character of the protected structure and the Architectural Conservation Area.”

A submission on behalf of Mr Power drafted by RPS Consultants, states that the bathing shelter “is modest in nature, discreetly located at level three of the tiered gardens, is not connected to the house and is also set back from the terraced area”.

The report added: “At the time, it was considered the small extension was exempt development.

“The intention of the proposal is to provide a changing room/shelter for the occupants of the house.”